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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 158 residents and recorded 422 private dwellings, with 357 unoccupied on Census night. Use the counts to understand locality scale, not to infer bookings, nightly rates, tourism flows or available inventory. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Straight-line, Guilderton is some 74 kilometres north of Rottnest Island. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Ledge Point and Lancelin give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Guilderton is a standalone house: 60 of 62 occupied private dwellings, or 96.8%.

The commonest home in Guilderton is three-bedroom at 46.8% of occupied private dwellings, with 79% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 3 one-bedroom, 14 two-bedroom, 29 three-bedroom and 16 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 4 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Guilderton close to the Rottnest Island area median of 82.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Guilderton is a two-car locality: 62.9% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 26 dwellings with one vehicle, 30 with two and 9 with three or more. No occupied dwelling in the locality recorded zero vehicles, which is a fair signal that guests will arrive by car.

40.4% of work journeys from Guilderton were made by car on Census day. 11.5% walked or cycled. 21.2% worked from home, which is a fair proxy for whether the internet here is good enough to sell a stay on.

The commonest household in Guilderton is two-person, at 45.2% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 40.3%, with 4.8% of households at four people or more. Across 38 families, 7.9% were couples with children, 63.2% couples without and 7.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Guilderton was 62 at the 2021 Census, older than the Rottnest Island area median of 48. Households averaged 2 people and 0.6 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $255 a week, about level with the $253 median across the Rottnest Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,235 a month. Median household income ran to $949 a week, against $599 for an individual.

Tenure in Guilderton split 43.5% owned outright, 24.2% mortgaged and 21% rented in 2021. That is 13 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Guilderton at the 2021 Census. None of it describes visitors, nightly rates, occupancy or short-stay supply, and it must not be presented as if it did. Its use is to set expectations a host can then confirm from the property itself: the real bedroom count and bed layout, how many vehicles the space genuinely takes and whether that space is on-title or on-street, the actual route to the door, and the house rules a street of this kind will expect around noise and turnover.

The draft guest-purpose brief identifies weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. Actual guest questions should decide which journey receives the strongest emphasis.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50593) and ABS 2021 Census DataPacks, Suburbs and Localities tables G02 medians and averages, G29 family composition, G34 motor vehicles, G35 household composition, G36 dwelling structure, G37 tenure, G41 bedrooms and G62 travel to work and ABS ASGS Edition 3 Suburbs and Localities geography. Census figures provide locality context only and do not measure short-stay demand.